Triton XIX, Lot: 2465. Estimate $750. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Portuguese India. Maria I a Piedosa (the Pious). 1777-1816. AV 4 Xerafins (12mm, 1.74 g, 6h). Goa mint. Dated 1803. Crowned Portuguese coat-of-arms / Voided cross crosslet; 4 X (value) across upper bar, 18 03 (date) across lower. Gomes 39.02; Vaz M1.36; Friedberg 1489. VF, areas of weak strike at periphery. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, December 1984.